Shirley Temple - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack | Writer Shirley Temple was easily the most popular and famous child star of all time. She got her start in the movies at the age of three and soon progressed to super stardom. Shirley could do it all: act, sing and dance and all at the age of five! Fans loved her as she was bright, bouncy and cheerful in her films and they ultimately bought millions of ... See full bio » Born: a list of 49 people created 06 Dec 2011 a list of 31 people created 14 Apr 2012 a list of 32 people created 28 Oct 2013 a list of 29 people created 28 Dec 2014 a list of 25 people created 10 Jul 2015 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Shirley Temple's work have you seen?

User Polls Heidi Heidi (1937) Shirley Temple's Storybook Herself - Narrator / Herself - Hostess / Christopher Robin's Mother / Emily Winters / Floretta / Gerande / Gillian / Herself / Herself - Host / Herself - Storyteller / Jo March Bhaer / Katrina Van Tassel / Narrator / Phoebe Pyncheon / Polly Baker / Princess Irene / Princess Ozma / The Little Mermaid / Tip (1958-1961) 2015 Ray Donovan (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - The Kalamazoo (2015) ...

(performer: "On the Good Ship Lollipop" - uncredited) 2008 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Wot Cher!" - uncredited) 1997 Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "At the Codfish Ball" (uncredited), "On the Good Ship Lollipop" (uncredited), "Animal Crackers in My Soup" (uncredited), "Hop, Skip, Jump and Slide") 1995 The Crossing Guard (performer: "Good Ship Lollipop") 1986 Living Seas (TV Movie) (performer: "At the Codfish Ball") 1985 That's Dancing! (Documentary) (performer: "Organ Grinder's Swing") 1970 Myra Breckinridge (performer: "You Gotta S-M-I-L-E to Be H-A-Double-P-Y", "On the Good Ship Lollipop" - uncredited) - Babes in Toyland (1960) ...

(performer: "Toyland", "Floretta") 1947 Honeymoon (performer: "Ven Aqui", "I Love Geraniums") 1944 Since You Went Away (performer: "Happy Birthday to You" (1893) - uncredited) 1941 Kathleen (performer: "Around the Corner" (1941), "Row, Row, Your Boat" or "The Old Log Hut" (1852) (uncredited)) 1940 Young People ("I Wouldn't Take A Million" (1940), uncredited) / (performer: "Fifth Avenue" (1940), "Tra-La-La-La" (1940), "Young People" (1940), "On the Beach at Waikiki" (1915), "Baby Take a Bow" (1934) - uncredited) 1939 Susannah of the Mounties (performer: "I'll Teach You to Waltz") 1939 The Little Princess (performer: "The Fantasy", "Wot Cher!" (1891)

 - uncredited) 1938 Just Around the Corner (performer: "This Is a Happy Little Ditty" (1938), "I Love to Walk in the Rain" (1938) - uncredited) 1938 Little Miss Broadway (performer: "Be Optimistic" (1938), "How Can I Thank You?" (1938), "We Should Be Together" (1938), "If All the World Were Paper" (1938), "Swing Me an Old Fashioned Song" (1938) - uncredited) 1938 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (performer: "An Old Straw Hat", "Come and Get Your Happiness", "On the Good Ship Lollipop", "Animal Crackers in My Soup", "When I'm with You", "Oh My Goodness", "Goodnight, My Love", "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers") 1937 Stand-In (performer: "On the Good Ship Lollipop" (1934) - uncredited) 1937 Heidi (performer: "In Our Little Wooden Shoes" (1937),

 "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name" (1774), "Silent Night" (1818) - uncredited) 1937 Wee Willie Winkie (performer: "Auld Lang Syne" (1788) - uncredited) 1936 Stowaway (performer: "Goodnight, My Love" (1936), "You Gotta S-M-I-L-E To Be H-A-Double-P-Y" (1936), "That's What I Want for Christmas" (1935) (uncredited)) 1936 Dimples (performer: "The Gospel Train", "Hey, What Did the Blue Jay Say?" (1936), "He Was a Dandy" (1936), "Picture Me Without You" (1936), "Dixie-anna" (1936) - uncredited) 1936 Poor Little Rich Girl (performer: "When I'm with You" (1936), "Oh My Goodness" (1936), "You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby"

 (1936), "But Definitely" (1936), "Buy a Bar of Barry's" (1936), "Military Man" (1936), "Peck's Theme" (1936) - uncredited) 1936 Captain January (lyrics: "Chi mi freno in tal momento?" (1835) - uncredited) / (performer: "At the Codfish Ball" (1936), "The Right Somebody to Love" (1936), "Early Bird" (1936), "Asleep in the Deep" (1897) (uncredited), "Chi mi freno in tal momento?" (1835) (uncredited)) 1935 The Littlest Rebel ("Polly Wolly Doodle" (1880), uncredited) / (music: "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (1808) - uncredited) / (performer: "Polly Wolly Doodle" (1880), "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (1808),

 " (I Wish I Was in) Dixie's Land" (1860) - uncredited) 1935 Curly Top (performer: "Animal Crackers in My Soup" (1935), "When I Grow Up" (1935), "Curly Top" (1935) - uncredited) 1935 Our Little Girl (1935, (performer: "Lullaby to a Doll", uncredited) 1935 The Little Colonel (performer: "Love's Young Dream", "My Old Kentucky Home" (1853) - uncredited) 1934 Bright Eyes (performer: "On the Good Ship Lollipop" (1934) - uncredited) 1934 Now and Forever (performer: "The World Owes Me a Living" - uncredited) 1934 Baby Take a Bow (performer: "On Account-a I Love You" (1934) - uncredited) 1934 Little Miss Marker (performer: "Laugh You Son of a Gun" (1934) - uncredited) Shirley Temple

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Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Apr 25, 2011 For Wendy.... "On the Good Ship Lollipop" was the trademark song of child actress Shirley Temple. Temple first sang it in the 1934 movie Bright Eyes. Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928), later known as Shirley Temple Black, is an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, autobiographer, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. She began her film career in 1932 at the age of three, and in 1934, skyrocketed to superstardom in Bright Eyes, a feature film designed specifically for her talents. She received a special Academy Award in February 1935, and film hits such as Curly Top and Heidi followed year after year during the mid to late 1930s. Licensed merchandise that capitalized on her wholesome image included dolls, dishes, and clothing.

Her box office popularity waned as she reached adolescence, and she left the film industry at the age of 12 to attend high school. She appeared in a few films of varying quality in her mid to late teens, and retired completely from films in 1950 at the age of 22. She was the top box-office draw four years in a row (1935--38) in a Motion Picture Herald poll. Lyrics: Hollywood star Shirley Temple dies - BBC News BBC News Hollywood star Shirley Temple dies 11 February 2014 Image copyright Getty Images Former Hollywood child star Shirley Temple has died at the age of 85. With her adorable charm and blonde curls, she was one of the most popular stars of the 1930s, in hit movies like Bright Eyes and Stand Up and Cheer. After retiring from films in 1950 at the age of 21, Temple returned to the spotlight as a politician and diplomat. She died on Monday at home in Woodside, California, from natural causes. "She was surrounded by her family and caregivers," a statement said.

Born in 1928, Temple soon became a major star after getting her first film role at the age of three. Image copyright AP Image caption She accepted the Screen Actors Guild Awards life achievement award in 2006 Her singing, dancing and acting won over fans worldwide. She was given a special juvenile Oscar in 1935, when she was just six years old. To this day, she is still the youngest person to receive an Academy Award. With the nickname "America's little darling", she was ranked as Hollywood's biggest draw for four years running from 1935 to '38 in an annual poll of US cinema owners. Her rendition of the song On the Good Ship Lollipop in the film Bright Eyes was among her most famous performances. SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S LIFE IN MOVIES Image copyright AFP Born at 9pm on 23 April 1928, Shirley Temple later joked: "Too late for dinner, and so I started life one meal behind. Ever since I've tried to make up for that loss." Temple started dancing at Mrs Meglin's Dance Studio in Los Angeles aged three.

It was here, in 1931, that she was signed up a series of shorts that parodied famous films with all-child casts. She was paid $10 a day. Stand Up and Cheer was her first feature film in 1934. A year later, aged six, she was the first recipient of a special juvenile Oscar. She holds the record as the youngest ever Oscar winner. Her mother Gertrude did her hair for each movie. Every hairstyle had exactly 56 curls. Temple made 14 short films and 43 features during her acting career. Sources: Shirleytemple.com/IMDB Her other films included Curly Top, The Littlest Rebel, Baby Take a Bow and Little Miss Marker. She was such a hit that US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt dubbed her "Little Miss Miracle" for raising morale during the Great Depression and she was credited with helping save 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy. Temple starred in a total of 43 feature films - but found it difficult to sustain her career in adulthood and left acting behind in 1950. She continued to appear on television, but that work dried up and she eventually stepped away from the spotlight.

When she came back into the public eye, it was in a new guise. Under her married name Shirley Temple Black, she ran as a Republican candidate for Congress in 1967 but lost. Richard Nixon later appointed her as a member of the US delegation to the United Nations General Assembly before President Ford named her the US ambassador to Ghana in 1974. In 1989, she was made the US ambassador to Czechoslovakia shortly before the fall of the country's Communist regime. She considered her background in entertainment an asset to her political career. "Politicians are actors too, don't you think?" she once said. In a statement announcing her death, her family said: "We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife for 55 years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black." Actor George Clooney was among those to pay tribute. He said: "Watching clips of her, it's so amazing that she was such a part of our film history from the very beginning.

"I'm sure it wasn't easy being a child star, although she went on to become an ambassador, so she re-invented herself along the way. But it's a great loss. I wish all the best for her family and thank her for her contribution." Actress Whoopi Goldberg wrote on Twitter : "The Good Ship Lollypop has sailed today with Shirley Temple aboard," and described the star as a true one of a kind. Joan Rivers tweeted : "Rest in peace, Shirley Temple Black. I know that you're sailing up and away on the Good Ship." Film critic Leonard Maltin wrote : "One of the most talented and brightest stars in the world has gone to the sky. A genuine phenomenon." Shirley Temple - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times Hollywood Star Walk Died Feb. 10, 2014 in Woodside, Calif. She was the No. 1 box-office star in in the U.S. for four straight years during the 1930s, the dimpled darling of the Depression.

But even the fabled childhood of Shirley Temple — Hollywood's most famous child star — could not be protected from such real-life intrusions as kidnap and extortion attempts, death threats and an attempted seduction by a Hollywood producer when she was only 12 years old. Over a 19-year period beginning when she was 3, Shirley Temple starred in 35 motion pictures, the majority of which were made at 20th Century Fox where, she said, she was "very protected." Shirley Temple was the youngest actress to receive a juvenile Oscar and the youngest to put her handprints in the concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The Santa Monica native began dancing at age 3, when her parents enrolled her at Ethel Meglin's Dance Studio in Los Angeles, and she was discovered there by director Charles Lamont. At the ripe old age of 4, she made her debut in the short "What's to Do?" and headlined a series called "Baby Burlesks," in which she parodied the likes of Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. But her career really kicked into gear when she signed with Fox — she made 10 movies in 1934 alone.

Temple sang and danced her way to stardom in such films as "Bright Eyes" (in which she introduced "On the Good Ship Lollipop"), "Poor Little Rich Girl" and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." From 1935 to 1938, she was Hollywood's box-office champ. Temple said she gave up acting when she was 22 because "I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world." Politics occupied much of her adult life. She ran an unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 1967 and was appointed U.S. delegate to the United Nations by President Nixon in 1969. She held ambassadorships through the 1980s. Temple died Feb. 11, 2014, at her home in Woodside, Calif. She was 85. — Dennis McLellan, Susan King and Valerie J. Nelson in the Los Angeles Times June 2, 1988, Jan. 27, 2006 and Feb.

11, 2014 Related Eight thoughts about Shirley Temple “ I love Shirley Temple, i think you should definitely post as much about her now, especially while she is still alive…she is a living legend! Rachel Gibson ” — Rachel Gibson, April 5, 2010 at 4:02 p.m. “ Shirley Temple was the little girl who got this big country through the Great Depression. Many people took a couple hours to go the the theater and escape the harsh realites of the Depression by watching Shirley on the Silver Screen! I love to watch her old movies with her rare talent of acting, singing, and dance as well as her little cherub face! :) ” — Karen Rynbrandt, April 12, 2010 at 11:23 p.m. “ Thanks, this is great. Helped me on my project alot. ” — Brookk., March 2, 2011 at 7:29 p.m. “ For me, it was more than just a favorite actress and something that. I loved it. Dreamed meet her!

eleventh February, I learned that she was gone and she did not recognize that it is counted as an angel .. and ever yaee still meeting ” — Sabi, May 3, 2014 at 2:46 p.m. “ Yes, she made us all laugh and cry. She was a great Actor. I nominate her to get a star on Hollywood's walk of fame. May she rest in peace. ” — Maggie , February 10, 2015 at 6:54 p.m. “ Absolutely Shirley needs a STAR on the walk of fame. She's iconic! forever will never be forgotten for enlightening peoples souls during the depression when it was MOST needed!! ” — Lorrie Williams, February 27, 2015 at 5:33 p.m. “ she abothermly deserves to start on hollywood boulevard! More so than many others, whose stars were a result of politics. ” — SanDee Renee Parrish Edwards, February 28, 2015 at 3:26 a.m.

“ The people in charge of The Hollywood Walk of Fame should lay Shirley Temple's Star back on Hollywood Walk of Fame instead of storing it at a storage where nobody see and remember her. In my opinion it is unfair to her, for me she is adorable and a sweetheart. She makes us laugh and cry. ” — Alex Ong, May 30, 2015 at 3:13 p.m. Share a thought about Shirley Temple Did you ever meet Shirley Temple? Share your memory. Which other stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame have connections to Shirley Temple? Are other places in the world important to Shirley Temple? Does Shirley Temple deserve this star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? If you enter anything in this field your comment will be treated as spam Name Bright Eyes (1934) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.

Director: a list of 36 titles created 20 Oct 2011 a list of 47 titles created 27 Dec 2012 a list of 30 titles created 14 Oct 2013 a list of 30 titles created 11 Feb 2014 a list of 21 titles created 1 month ago Search for " Bright Eyes " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones." As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary. Director: Irving Cummings After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years ...

See full summary » Director: David Butler Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight... See full summary » Director: Harry Lachman Shirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the ... See full summary » Director: David Butler Dimples Appleby lives with the pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady makes it possible for the girl to go legit. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is performed. Director: William A. Seiter Shirley lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives. Buddy Ebsen dances "At The Codfish Ball" with Shirley.

Director: David Butler Little Martha Jane, aka Little Miss Marker (Temple) is left with the bookmaker Sorrowful Jones by her dad as part of a bet on a horserace. Sorrowful (Menjou) and his group of fellow bookies... See full summary » Director: Alexander Hall The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers. Director: Irving Cummings Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast. Director: Allan Dwan A plucky little orphan girl gets dumped abruptly into her gruff, hermit grandfather's care, then later gets retaken and delivered as a companion for an injured girl. Director: Allan Dwan Ching-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker, also on the ... See full summary » Director: William A.

Seiter A little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, due to her father having to go to Africa with the army. Directors: Walter Lang, William A. Seiter Stars: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise Edit Storyline When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple she used to work for. A custody battle soon ensues between an aviator who adores the little girl and the couple's crotchety Uncle Ned. Written by Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com> 28 December 1934 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording) Color: Did You Know? Trivia Despite the aviation element of this movie, Shirley Temple was never allowed to actually ride in an airplane during filming; her life insurance policy voided claims resulting from aircraft. See more » Goofs At the very end of the movie when Uncle Ned reveals who got Shirley, Joy is holding her hands in front of her. When the scene moves into Joy, her arms are crossed. See more » Quotes Adele Martin : Can't you forget the past?

James 'Loop' Merritt : Sure. I can forget a lot of things. I can forget that you and I were in love, and we were engaged to be married, and you walked out on me. All that is as dead as this. [tosses away a burnt match] James 'Loop' Merritt : But I can't forget that you made a fool of me. A man remembers something like that. Adele Martin : Would it make any difference if I said I'm sorry? James 'Loop' Merritt : Not a bit. It's a little too late. But you didn't come all the way over here just to tell me that, did you? Adele Martin : No. I came to talk about Shirley. ... [...] The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1867) (uncredited) The Beginning Of Stardom For Shirley 18 November 2005 | by ccthemovieman-1 (United States) – See all my reviews Even though there is very little singing and dancing, which is a big part of the appeal of Shirley Temple, it's still a solid film.

This was the first movie in which was Shirley was the big star, I believe, and you can see why she quickly won the hearts of Americans. Although there is only one song, it's perhaps her most famous: "On the Good Ship Lollipop." The rest of the film is almost as charming as that song with many sweet, touching moments that made her films so endearing. It also helped to have James Dunn as the male lead. Dunn was one of the more likable guys in classic Hollywood, on and off the screen. He and Shirley make a great pair. Other interesting people to watch in this movie are the crabby old grandfather, played by Charles Sellon; the spoiled brat played by Jane Withers, who is so bad she's funny and an assortment of other characters from fliers to cooks to old girlfriends. The only negative is the ending. It looked like they didn't know how to end this, so they rushed to finish it without much thought. Oh, well, the main thing is Shirley's charm.....and that's there in abundance. 19 of 22 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Shirley Temple: Hollywood's little miracle who grew up a real person | Film | The Guardian Shirley Temple Shirley Temple: Hollywood's little miracle who grew up a real person Her films enchanted strife-hit US audiences, and unlike so many child stars to come, she made a diplomatic transition to adulthood Tuesday 11 February 2014 08.30 EST First published on Tuesday 11 February 2014 08.30 EST Close This article is 2 years old In the grim years of the Depression and the poverty-stricken 1930s, America took to its heart a lovable, curly-haired little girl who looked every bit as vulnerable as they felt, but who with the help of her pals and tender good-hearted grownups would put her best foot forward and surely win through in the end. This was Shirley Temple , who in that decade became one of the biggest stars in the world — her career and attractions shrewdly nurtured by the formidable 20th Century Fox studio chief Darryl F Zanuck, for whom Temple became a singing-and-dancing, ringleted cash calf.

She also achieved fame as a striking, almost unique example of how a child star graduates gracefully from the juvenile-lead status that messes with so many actors' heads. Shirley Temple didn't twerk. She became America's representative to the UN, and later ambassador to both Ghana and Czechoslovakia — although these public-service ambitions grew out of an uneasy adventure in television in her 20s. She sensed that, out of childhood, she was like Esther Williams out of a swimming pool: not really a star. But nonetheless she had style, self-possession, a brand-recognition factor and a capacity for public performance, and sensed that this could be parlayed into a career in politics. Her movies were saccharine adventures in which this poor little thing would face something awful but show indomitable perkiness: she was a Kid without any Chaplin to provide dramatic or comic corrective to the sugary sentiment. In Bright Eyes (1934), she achieved almost household-deity status in the United States: the movie was conceived specifically for her. Temple played sweet little orphan girl Shirley, nicknamed "bright eyes".

The movie played brilliantly and mercilessly on the audience's protective instincts and offered them the sensational song: On The Good Ship Lollipop , a sugary lullaby about "sailing" through the air to a longed-for world of candy. "But if you eat too much — Ooh! Ooh! — you'll awake with a tummy ache!" Hungry Americans could only dream about having so much candy. At just six years old, Temple delivered that number with eerie accomplishment, like an alien from the Planet Professional, to adult actors who had to wear fixed grins. She had a mesmerically precocious control of pace and tone: calmly, jauntily unhurried and unselfconscious with a tiny, gulpy crack on the higher notes. Temple's other keynote movie came a year later with Curly Top (1935) in which she plays Elizabeth, a little girl who is in an orphanage — but of course — where her attractive grownup sister works in the kitchen. A wealthy trustee of the orphanage takes a kindly shine to Elizabeth, and while making moves to adopt her, falls in love with her older sister.

It was in this film that Temple gave the world her other legendary song, Animal Crackers In My Soup: singing in the orphanage about finding these crackers in the way she finds something to be cheerful about in her tough life — making the best of things. Reading on mobile? Watch Shirley Temple sing Animal Crackers In My Soup here In her early 20s, Temple quit the movies, sensing that she could never have that electric stardom she had as a little girl, and her cutesy mannerisms looked uncomfortable as she had neared and entered adolescence. And it was due to this issue that Temple had Hollywood history's most famous run-in with a film critic, and not just any film critic.

In 1937, when Temple was nine years old, Graham Greene reviewed her film Wee Willie Winkie in the now defunct Night and Day magazine: "Her admirers – middle-aged men and clergymen – respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality, only because the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire." 20th Century Fox sued for libel, claiming that Greene had implied that the studio had deliberately marketed the movie in this unwholesome way – and won. It seems possible that Greene's trip to Mexico, which spawned his novel The Power and the Glory and began before the trial, was hastened so that, being in a country with no extradition arrangement with Britain, he could avoid a prison sentence for criminal libel. As it was, the civil libel fine effectively destroyed the magazine and the matter ended there. The Temple/Greene case is interesting in that it is an example of how a particularly lofty or "literary" strain of film criticism is still inclined to mock or patronise Hollywood, or use it as the raw material for jokes or provocation. But Hollywood has teeth.

And Greene wasn't the last writer to discover that Britain's libel laws provide rich pickings for wealthy and powerful celebrities. Shirley Temple's movie persona was a kind of gawky cousin to the Elizabeth Taylor of National Velvet or indeed the Julie Andrews of The Sound of Music: adorable, sweet-natured, with grownup accomplishments but sexless and artless — and utterly at home in showbusiness. To have done so well at such at extraordinarily early age, but extricated herself from the hothouse world of child-stardom with such success, was a type of miracle. More on Shirley Temple Shirley Temple - obituary - Telegraph Obituaries Shirley Temple - obituary Shirley Temple was film's most popular child star, with ringlets and dimples that dazzled audiences and studios alike 6:09PM GMT 11 Feb 2014 Comments Shirley Temple, who has died aged 85, was the screen’s most popular child star of the 1930s, receiving at the age of eight 135,000 birthday gifts from fans the world over.

Throughout the Depression years, her sunny disposition helped audiences forget their woes and a special Oscar was presented to her for “bringing more happiness to millions of children and millions of grown-ups than any other child of her years in the history of the world”. It might have turned many a tiny tot’s head, but Shirley had her mother constantly at her side to ensure she was kept on an even keel. Gertrude Temple was the architect of Shirley’s career, masterminding every aspect, every contract, what she ate, when she slept. Before each take, she would coach her, ignoring the director, and give her last-minute instructions. “Sparkle, Shirley,” she would say. A shrewd businesswoman, she knew instinctively how to manipulate the studios and their publicity machines to her daughter’s advantage. For good or ill, she turned little Shirley into a phenomenon. Everything she did was news.

In October 1936, the world gasped as a bulletin flashed over the Reuters wire: “Shirley Temple has been sent to bed with a slight fever resulting from a cold.” Related Articles Sybil Jason 29 Aug 2011 She was acting in pictures from the age of four and rapidly captivated filmgoers with her blonde ringlets and dimpled charm. Dolls, books and games were named after her in a merchandising campaign matched only by Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse. Yet her talent was modest. She sang off-key and cynics dismissed her dancing as “mere jigging up and down”. She liked to do impersonations but her acting was generally regarded as cute rather than compelling. She had the child star’s built-in self-destruct mechanism — what had seemed peachy in a moppet became arch in adolescence. Attempts to extend her career into young womanhood were unsuccessful and she made her last film in 1949 — washed up in Hollywood at 21. Yet that was not the end of the Shirley Temple story. Against all sceptics’ expectations, the little girl who had never had a normal childhood matured into a distinguished politician and diplomat.

She stood (unsuccessfully) for Congress before representing America at the United Nations and serving as US ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia under her married name of Shirley Temple Black. She was born on April 23 1928 in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of a bank teller. Like many a proud mother, Gertrude Temple enrolled her child in dancing classes at the age of three and promoted her vigorously. A talent scout from Educational Pictures, a small company specialising in shorts, spotted Shirley and invited her for a screen test, which led to her appearance in 1932-33 in a string of film spoofs known as Baby Burlesks. Among them were The Incomparable More Legs Sweetrick (as Marlene Dietrich), The Pie-Covered Wagon and Polly-Tix in Washington. She alternated these performances with small parts in now forgotten feature movies such as The Red-Haired Alibi (1932) and To the Last Man (1933), opposite Randolph Scott.

While filming a second series of shorts for Educational under the title Frolics of Youth, she and her mother were approached by the much bigger Fox Film Corporation (later Twentieth Century-Fox) with a view to Shirley featuring in the film Stand Up and Cheer (1934). She passed the audition and was signed up for $150 a week. When the film opened, she stole the show with the song and dance routine Baby Take a Bow. Recognising her star potential, Fox swung its publicity department into action. But it did not have her under exclusive contract. Earlier in the year, the astute Mrs Temple had forged a two-picture deal with Paramount and it was that studio that initially reaped the benefit of her sudden fame. It rushed her into two pictures in 1934 to fulfil the contract — Little Miss Marker, based on a Damon Runyon story, and Now and Forever, in which she was the go-between who reunites an estranged couple played by Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard. On the strength of these pictures, Shirley’s Fox contract was renegotiated to $1,250 a week.

She was cast in Bright Eyes, where she sang one of the songs indelibly associated with her, On the Good Ship Lollipop, and from then on vehicles were written especially for her. By the end of 1934, aged six, she was the eighth biggest draw in America. A year later, she was number one and held that position four years in a row, attracting more fan mail than Greta Garbo and being photographed more often than the President himself. “I class myself with Rin Tin Tin,” she volunteered brightly. She churned out pictures at a tremendous lick — sometimes five a year through the late-1930s — and the public clamoured for more. Features included, in 1935, The Little Colonel, Curly Top, a remake of Daddy Long Legs, and The Littlest Rebel, in which she told Abraham Lincoln that he was almost nice enough to be a Confederate. The 1936 clutch had Captain January, Dimples and Poor Little Rich Girl, while in 1937, the title role in an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s Wee Willie Winkie was changed from boy to girl especially to accommodate her.

Her work in this film led to a notorious libel suit involving the future novelist Graham Greene, then employed as a film critic by the magazine Night and Day. At a cocktail party, after what he later described as “a dangerous third Martini” Greene dreamt up the idea of deflating the Temple balloon, but he peppered his review of her performance in Wee Willie Winkie with such litigious terms as “dubious coquetry”, “dimpled depravity” and “mature suggestiveness”. Shirley and Twentieth Century-Fox sued. In court in March, 1938, Sir Patrick Hastings, counsel for the plaintiffs, was too mortified to bring himself to utter Greene’s words. “In my view”, he said, “it is one of the most horrible libels that one can imagine about a child. I shall not read it — it is better I should not — but a glance at the statement of claim ... is sufficient to show the nature of the libel.

This beastly publication appeared but it is right to say that every respectable news distributor in London refused to be party to its sale.” The plaintiffs won; $5,250 punitive damages were awarded to Fox, $7,000 to the actress and Night and Day folded. But as a postscript to the episode, the mature Shirley Temple bore the novelist no grudge. In 1989, she sent him an inscribed copy of her autobiography, Child Star, and invited him to tea. The year 1938 marked the high-water mark of her popularity. She appeared in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (without ringlets for the first time), in Little Miss Broadway and Just around the Corner at a fee of $100,000 a picture, which made her Hollywood’s highest-paid earner after Louis B Mayer. By 1939 he fee had jumped to $300,000, but public taste was changing. Susannah and the Mounties was disappointing and The Blue Bird was, by common consent, a “turkey”.

MGM had wanted to borrow her for The Wizard of Oz, but Fox refused, casting her instead in what it hoped would be a rival children’s attraction . But Maeterlinck’s arty symbolism in The Blue Bird found no favour with the public. It opened in selected cinemas a few days before Christmas 1939, but proved such a dud that it had to be withdrawn after only a few days and replaced by a Sonja Henie ice-skating musical. When generally released in 1940, The Blue Bird met with no warmer response, becoming Shirley’s first unmitigated flop. Gertrude Temple blamed Fox and offered to buy out the remainder of Shirley’s contract. Fox raised no objections and, at the age of 11, she took a “sabbatical” from the cinema, ostensibly to repair gaps in her patchy education. Though her vocabulary was officially said to be 750 words, “all of which she can write”, she had trouble with numbers over 50. According to her teacher, she still thought 47 cents was more than 55 cents. In fact, Shirley’s absence from the screen was an opportunity for her mother to negotiate a fresh contract with another studio.

She picked MGM, but it was not a happy choice. The studio was grooming its own child prodigy in Judy Garland and found only one vehicle for Shirley, the lacklustre Kathleen (1941). Roger Edens, who was Garland’s coach, let it be known that Shirley would have to put in a lot of singing and dancing practice if she hoped to be worthy of the studio. Mrs Temple took umbrage and took off. After a remake of a Mary Pickford picture, Miss Annie Rooney (1942) at United Artists, Shirley gravitated to David O Selznick, who signed her to a seven-year contract, but as a teenager she could no longer command lead roles. Selznick cast her only in supporting parts in Since You Went Away (1944) and I’ll Be Seeing You (1945). In that year, aged 17, she also completed her interrupted education by graduating from Westlake High School for Girls in Los Angeles. She then published her first autobiography, My Young Life, and was married to army sergeant-turned actor John Agar. The last four years of her screen career were an anticlimax.

Her infant precocity gave way to mere pertness (of which there is no shortage in Hollywood) in such films as The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947), That Hagen Girl (1947), with Ronald Reagan, and A Kiss for Corliss (1949), her screen swansong, opposite David Niven. This period also included the first film in John Ford’s cavalry trilogy, Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred, aged 20, with her husband. When the marriage failed, she wed again in 1950 - her new husband was a wealthy San Francisco businessman, Charles Black. She largely retired from acting to concentrate on social work, though from 1957 to 1959 she narrated and appeared in a television series entitled Shirley Temple’s Storybook. This was followed in 1960 by Shirley Temple Presents Young America, a programme about the problems of high-school dropouts.

From 1960 she played a leading role in developing the San Francisco film festival, resigning in 1966 only over the decision to screen the Swedish film Night Games, which she denounced as “pornography for profit”. In 1967 she ran for Congress to fill a dead man’s shoes (Republican J Arthur Younger). Though her recording of On the Good Ship Lollipop was used as a theme song at rallies, she insisted that “Little Shirley Temple is not running. If someone insists on pinning me with a label, let it read Shirley Temple Black, Republican independent.” But in the era of Lyndon Johnson, her conservative stance on taxes, law and order and drug addiction lost her the seat. After her election defeat, she continued to work for the Republican party, raising funds and urging Americans overseas to back Richard Nixon in the forthcoming presidential campaign. When elected, Nixon named her one of the five-member American delegation to the 24th session of the United Nations General Assembly. In this capacity she served in 1969 on the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee.

Her subsequent diplomatic career included US ambassador to Ghana (1974-76), sparking a trend for Ghanaian children to be named Shirley (including boys), and to the former Czechoslovakia, to which she was appointed by President Bush in 1989. Shirley Temple married first, John Agar, with whom she had a daughter. The marriage was dissolved. She married second, Charles Black (who predeceased her in 2005), with whom she had two more children. Shirley Temple, born April 23 1928, died February 11 2014 7 Impossibly Cute Shirley Temple Moments (VIDEOS) - The Daily Beast Gee-Golly 7 Impossibly Cute Shirley Temple Moments (VIDEOS) Shirley Temple Black, the original child star, died at age 85. Remember her life through her most precocious, most beloved video clips. She was so darned cute. Kevin Fallon 02.11.14 4:29 PM ET Shirley Temple Black was the original child star, before “child star” was a bad word.

As Shirley Temple, the precocious young actress was just 3 when she began her screen career, with her radiance and sunniness eventually exploding like a solar flare to make her Hollywood’s brightest and most beloved star. Black died this week at age 85, after starring in over 60 films and later becoming a diplomat, meaning she had devoted her entire lifetime to one mission: making the world feel better. As anyone who’s sat with their grandmother to delight through a viewing of Curly Top or watched their daughter, granddaughter, or niece cheese their way through their own spunky rendition of “Good Ship Lollipop” knows, she accomplished that mission ten-fold with her bright, magnetic, always genuine on-screen glee. At a time poisoned by Toddlers and Tiaras, stage moms, and child-star meltdowns, it’s never been more appropriate—or needed—to look back at why we loved Shirley Temple so much. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.” And as our luck would have it, we will always have her.

“On the Good Ship Lollipop” Maybe the most iconic Shirley Temple performance, from the 1934 movie Bright Eyes. This is the epitome of precocious professionalism. Sure, her gee-golly choreography is unbearable cute, but watch her eyes. The expression and gumption she sells the number with her eyes is the real magic of Shirley Temple. “Curly Top” After the merger of Fox and Twentieth Century, a Shirley Temple Development Unit was set up specifically to develop star vehicles for Temple with a singular mission: to help lift American spirits in the last days of the Great Depression. As Temple effortlessly tap dances on the top of white piano, it’s safe to say that the mission was accomplished. “Early Bird” The first few seconds of this number for the 1936 film Early Bird, with Temple scrunching her face and stretching sleepy-eyed as she wakes up in the morning, is what the word “cute” was invented to describe. The trick with Temple, though, is that as she then gets out of bed and begins tap dancing around her bedroom while she dresses in the morning, the cute never becomes cloying. Just always, always charming.

“Animal Crackers in My Soup” I JUST WANNA SQUEEZE HER AND LOVE HER FOREVER. Shirley and Bojangles Temple and famous American tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson danced together in a series of films in the 1930s, including 1935’s The Little Colonel. Watch Temple, then barely 7, keep perfect sync with world-renowned, lifetime-trained Robinson. “Auld Lang Syne”

Question: In which film of the 1930's did child star Shirley Temple sing On the Good Ship Lollipop?
Answer: Bright Eyes